Nasa Space Place: What's in Space?

By Linda Hermans-Killam

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

When you look up at the night sky, you see stars and sometimes the moon and the brighter planets. Away from city lights, on a clear night, you might see the beautiful band of the Milky Way stretching across the sky.

Is there anything else up there in space?

There are many beautiful, strange and mysterious objects in space. We are lucky that we now have large telescopes to help us see far into space.

With telescopes, we can get a much better view of the planets and moons in our solar system. By using special telescop...